Gulbarga Vs Gulbarg

Gulbarga Vs Gulbarg

In 2002, this week was significant. 12 years later, this week still remains significant.

12 years back, Feku didn't have guts to look into the eyes of the ill-fated residents of Gulbarg society... 12 years on, he still doesn't have those guts.

-  Yesterday (28th Feb, 2014), he was speaking at Gulbarga, Karnataka. I'm sure the name must have rang the bell in his ears. As usual he went on speaking about what he will do if BJP comes to power and all. Probably he got confused and discussed Telangana too. But he never spoke a word on Godhra riots.

28 Feb, 2002, was the day when a 3-day massacre was let free...

-  Feku has been going around the country, telling different audience how concerned he is for everyone. How he thinks they deserve a gem of a leader like him who is just, non-communal and truthful. He lets them know how bad the current central governance is and the nation is back to the stone age! But he forgets that however far he may want to go, the questions of his past will always haunt him.

-  It has been 12 years since the fight for justice begin. Widow of slain ex-MP Ehsaan Jafri Mrs. Zakia Jafri has not been able to sleep peacefully and has been forced to such pain in old age. No doubt (after spending crores and treating the SIT Chief as VIP) the judiciary has given Feku a "cleanchit", why hasn't he spoke anything on Gulbarg massacre? Why hasn't he expressed his grief directly to the people? Why hasn't he atleast wrote a letter of sympathy to Zakia? We know that the "puppies die under the tyre" but if you are innocent and not ashamed of what you did, how about a few words in public for those puppies?

It seems talking about suparis, fishes and road accidents is a safer option for him than on actually issues. but lets hope he doesn't forget that...

People of Gulbarga will forget you and people of Gulbarg will never let you forget them.

X-Ray of a Fascist! (Amit Sengupta)

(Excerpts from http://www.gujaratlive.org/p/when-they-came-to-barren-border-areas.html)

Social scientist Ashis Nandy had interviewed Narendra Modi in the early 1990s. He came out of the interview shaken. In his own words:

“More than a decade ago, when Narendra Modi was a nobody, a small-time RSS pracharak trying to make it as a small-time BJP functionary, I had the privilege of interviewing him. . . . Modi, it gives me no pleasure to tell the readers, met virtually all the criteria that psychiatrists, psycho-analysts and psychologists had set up after years of empirical work on the authoritarian personality. He had the same mix of puritanical rigidity, narrowing of emotional life, massive use of the ego defence of projection, denial and fear of his own passions combined with fantasies of violence – all set within the matrix of clear paranoid and obsessive personality traits. I still remember the cool, measured tone in which he elaborated a theory of cosmic conspiracy against India that painted every Muslim as a suspected traitor and a potential terrorist. I came out of the interview shaken and told Yagnik that, for the first time, I had met a textbook case of a fascist and a prospective killer, perhaps even a future mass murderer.”


Another social scientist, Shiv Vishwanathan, recently called Narendra Modi an “uncivilized creature” on prime time TV. He said he was sure of this term because he has done “ten years of investigations” on Gujarat. JD(U) leader Shivanand Tewari had earlier said that Modi’s body language reeked of arrogance. He recently remarked (after Modi’s rather perverse and murderous ‘Kutte ka Bachcha’ comment during an interview with Reuters) that Modi should undergo “psycho analysis”.

However, we needn’t rely on these impressions – based, as they are, on body language and psychological profiling – to assess Modi’s character; we could simply look at the record of his conduct.

There are no less than 45 authenticated reports meticulously documenting the Gujarat carnage, which was state-sponsored and masterminded at the highest level. The mass-scale violence was facilitated and executed by the Gujarat police and bureaucracy, including the top brass, and implemented on the ground by blood-thirsty mobs and gang-rapists of the Sangh Parivar, Modi’s ministers and Hindutva leaders. The documentation includes the NHRC report and the bulky volumes of the People’s Tribunal, comprising eminent former judges as members. There are also scores of eye-witness accounts, including those of women – such as Bilquis Bano and Zakia Jafri – who were victims of the state-sponsored violence.

Zakia Jafri’s court petition and the arguments and evidence being presented with it point to a nexus between the Gujarat government and the so-called rioters and to the fact that the violent acts were planned with detailed precision. Several indicators point to Modi himself. The meeting of the top brass in the government one day before the state sponsored killings is a crucial indicator.

Other documents describe in detail the organized carnage and its aftermath in the tragic and inhuman mass refugee camps. People were hacked and burned alive. Swords ripped apart women’s stomachs. There were mass rapes and grotesque public spectacles of gang rapes. Kerosene-filled match boxes were put inside children’s mouths. Ravaged women and children were thrown alive into bonfires. All of this has been documented meticulously and extensively by journalists, activists, lawyers, witnesses, officials, filmmakers, and others.